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A majority of Coloradans don't like the two Sept. 10 recall elections, and while they oppose gun-control laws in general, they support the key laws that have led to the recall effort, according to a poll released Thursday.

Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,184 registered Colorado voters at land-line and cellphone numbers from Aug. 15 to Wednesday. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percent.

"Philosophically, voters don't want a recall election every time they disagree with a legislator," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

The next general election is in 2014. Term limits would remove Morse from office after that election.

Statewide, voters backed Morse keeping his job until the end of his term 54 percent to 35 percent. Fifty-two percent said Giron should not be removed from office for supporting the gun-control legislation, while 36 percent wanted her recalled.

A majority of voters, while generally opposing stricter gun-control laws, supported the main two measures the Democrat-controlled legislature passed earlier this year.

Survey-takers overall supported mandatory background checks on gun transactions, 82 percent to 16 percent. They were divided, however, on limiting ammunition magazines to 15 rounds, with 49 percent supporting the ban and 48 percent opposing. The support however, lies within the poll's margin of error.

Seventy percent of Republicans and 98 percent of Democrats supported background checks, while 19 percent of Republicans and 84 percent of Democrats supported a limit on magazine capacities.